Wisconsin native, conservative critic of everything.
"Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God." ---G K Chesterton
"The only objective of Liberty is Life" --G K Chesterton
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Wednesday, February 02, 2011

Hey!! It Snowed!!

Well. (See 12:30 PM update below...)

We're certainly not in bad shape compared to City of Milwaukee (or Racine/Kenosha) folks; here, the plows only block the driveway, not the entire car. It'll take about 1 hour to clear the (short) driveway and uncover the vehicle that's out there. Not bad at all, especially since I've already determined which of the chilluns will shovel which part of the snow. (heh.)

We did get a report from Dallas: temperature there is now around 20 degrees, and a large part of Irving is without electricity. Since DFW-area buildings are not exactly winter-resistant, that may become a problem.

Drifting is as bad as I've ever seen it, but that's "relatively speaking". Since there was not a lot of snow on the ground in the first place, the drifts over the driveway are not exceptionally deep. If there is another 5-6" snowfall with decent winds in the next week or 10 days, it will be nasty.

Hi Ho, Hi Ho, it's off to (supervise) Shoveling I Go!!

UPDATE: I'm considering hanging up my 'labor-estimating' spikes. Actual clearance took just under 3 hours, not 1. But then, we also cleaned up a neighbor's drive AND re-did the drive-end, as the municipal plow did exactly what he's done every storm to date: wait until I blow out the drive, THEN re-plow the street.